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When Ben Luety first arrived inside the CFO office at the Seattle Indian Health Board, he would frequently rely on his smartphone\u2019s roaming service to search the Web rather than depend on the organization\u2019s Internet connection.

\u201cThe Internet for the entire organization had less bandwidth than I did,\u201d explains Luety, who describes the IT infrastructure serving the organization\u2019s 200 staff members as being minted in the pre-Internet days of the early 1990s.\xa0

For Luety, it was apparent that the SIHB was the type of organization that cloud technologies often serve best by allowing them to leapfrog certain technologies and approaches that haven\u2019t passed the test of time. What\u2019s more, Luety was in lockstep with his CEO, Esther Lucero, whose vision for the organization could be realized only through greater transparency and visibility into its numbers.

\u201cWe needed a system that would allow us to quickly and easily produce reports, and it all came down to our ability to manage data and produce a workflow that allows everyone to make certain that the data is getting into the right bucket and that we\u2019re reporting out to the organization\u2014so that people across the organization can make data-driven decisions,\u201d he\xa0explains.\xa0\u2013Jack Sweeney\xa0jb